O Happy Day

A popular song from Germany, 1885
English words by Arthur H. Vivian
Music by Carl Götze


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:


Lyrics

  1. ‘Twas on one Sunday bright and clear
    The fairest day in all the year
    We two went strolling through the corn
    Through field and meadow, brake and thorn
    The lark say high: The Sun above
    It’s beams outpoured o’er dale and grove

Refrain
O happy day, o day so dear
How far thou art and yet how near
O happy day, o day so dear
How far thou art and yet how near

  1. We strolled in silence arm in arm
    Each heart so full, each heart so warm
    Thy bright blue eyes beloved Maid
    Poured floods of light where e’er we strayed
    And deep within this heart of mine
    Thy glance did all earth’s suns outshine
  2. As o’er yon lone brown heath we passed
    My heart the right word found at last
    My lips found thine, a kiss I stole
    I said, “Dost love me, O my soul?”
    And smiling there thine answer ran
    Thou knowest it not, poor hapless man?

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: